#livin

The more living patterns there are in a place - a room, a building, or a town - the more it comes to life as an entirety, the more it glows, the more it has that self-maintaining fire which is the quality without a name. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

#comes #entirety #fire #glows #life

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

#begun #habit #live #living #quotation

I loved living and breathing theatre so much that I decided I had to find a way to bring my desire to act and my ability to support myself together. I'd run through the possibilities in Washington, so that meant moving to New York. ↗

— Karen Allen

#act #breathing #bring #decided #desire

I'm living in California but I have a place that is mine in Chile and I belong there. I am no longer an exile. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#belong #california #chile #exile #i

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#away #being #comes #cut #experience

I finally decided if I was going to make a living, I was gonna have to come to New York. ↗

— Mose Allison

#decided #finally #going #gonna #i

Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising. ↗

— Eric Alterman

#american children #children #five #living #number

If what you achieve today is equal to what you achieved yesterday, then you are at a loss. And if what you have achieved today is less than what you achieved yesterday, then you are deprived from the Almighty's blessings. Anyone who is not progressing, is in fact regressing, and if you are regressing, then you might as well be dead. ↗

— Ali-Ibne-Abu Talib

#self-improvement #success #equality

For two years living in a neutral country I have been able to see through the haze of propaganda to reach something which my conscience tells me is the truth. ↗

— John Amery

#been #conscience #country #haze #i

Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower. ↗

— Hans Christian Anderson

#enough #flower #freedom #just #just living